IT’S a country so rich citizens don’t pay taxes and electricity. Healthcare, education and even funerals are free.
Doha, the capital city with its futuristic skyline, is a gleaming monument to capitalism. Unemployment is virtually non-existent. Almost everyone who lives here is wealthy, thanks to seemingly limitless supplies of oil and natural gas.
Qatar, a jewel of opulence on the Arabian Peninsula, may be tiny, but it’s the fourth richest country in the world – and soon the eyes of the globe will be on it when it hosts one of the most controversial Fifa World Cups in history.
Presiding over it all is a vast royal family with unfathomably deep pockets and a penchant for doing whatever they